>>>Has anyone removed extra spaces from a sentence stored in a variable? How is it done?
>>
>>What is your definition of extra spaces? Example please
>
>If you want to remove 2 (or more) consecutive spaces in the text:
>

>DO WHILE "  " $ YourText
>   YourText = STRTRAN(YourText,"  "," ")
>ENDDO
>

Boris,

Check Jeff Moden's solution in this thread http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1572324

:)